We play Dandân - Round Two

[@CardmarketMagic]

Decklist: bit.ly/3UzDroK

[@terrarianpro2140]

This was posted 1 hour agd the video was posted a minute ago.

[@BaronSengir1008]

​@@terrarianpro2140And? The video was posted hours before it was made public...

[@HauntedCorpseGaming]

Love this format, even printed off a 3D DanDan deck holder board which is the fish coming out of the water from CuIts3D to put my deck on. The variant we play has 2 Pirate ships and 2 Sea Singers in it for added fun.

[@Issblodh]

My variant only runs cards printed in the old border. I call it old border dandân. I’m running enchantments and artifacts. My philosophy is that all card types need to be represented.

[@A12C4]

@CardmarketMagic You know what would be could? To be able to put directly this deck list into my CardMarket wishlist

[@Oznej]

7:20 "So my Dandâns are, well, done-done." Such an underrated joke, well done, Thoralf!

[@magnus24112]

The: “Jamin knows the top cards are: ..” was very helpful! Thx editors!

[@Tuss36]

Agreed. Those little visual aids were a great addition.

[@hypers829]

Jamin knows he will have sausages for lunch after this game.

[@degamervantegenwoordig351]

At the end 23:19 the dan dan would have died because the vision charm had resolved so he has no islands

[@toffel1612]

haha true! crazy

[@kylejohnson4662]

Came here to say this

[@sebbbi2]

Yeah. They even remembered that islands don’t produce blue, but didn’t put the second dandan to graveyard.

[@degamervantegenwoordig351]

@@sebbbi2 Jip 😂

[@jorritdriessen5728]

I came to the comments for this I was very confused

[@bricelory9534]

Very fun! I hope Dan Dan becomes a semi-regular series for this channel!

[@Mightypi]

After your last vid, i built dandan. i play it way more than any other format.

[@lucaschamberlain34]

I did too! This decklist is different from the last vid, so are you upgrading?

[@Mightypi]

@lucaschamberlain34 prob not, not now at least. But some of the new stuff looks great, predict looks awesome

[@drdumpling8898]

@@Mightypideduce might be a cool little draw spell don’t think it would be great but I like it

[@greenwave819]

Mono U for the win!!!

[@HumbleBasse]

I guess your beard now almost reaches your bellybutton

[@zealcrux]

Let’s gooooooo! Now let’s get another round of judge tower!

[@alexnunes3022]

More judges tower please! Or maybe 4 player Dan-Dan?

[@Rocknoob49]

@@alexnunes3022 Dan-Dan-Dan-Dan?

[@highleylikely]

Oh, judge tower has been my favorite format recently! DanDan is hilarious too.

[@sirKonradical]

​@@Rocknoob49😅2 headed dandan

[@Romashka_Sov]

​@@alexnunes3022hahah, if they'll do 4 players dandan, someone here will win because everyone else are decked out XD just in this match Thoralf and Jamin had only 3 or 4 cards left in the deck

[@snrristurlosen2388]

I am really hyped to see more gameplay, more modern, pioneer and standart with good and fun decks, but dandan etc. is also incredibly fun

[@CardmarketMagic]

We will be doing more gameplay videos soon, we'll be switching to more 1v1 games soon. We simply had a series of guests that didn't match it for a while

[@BaronSengir1008]

@@CardmarketMagic Carl had better have his hat!

[@gr1nder07]

" i dont know whos turn it is" - one blue mage to another blue mage

[@mashedmentality]

I was introduced to magic by a friend years ago. Never owned any paper cards of my own but they let me borrow theirs and we would games for hours on end with the different decks they had built and even helped me build some out of the cards that were left over. We ended up moving apart from each other and I picked up playing arenas to try and fill that gap that was created. After playing that for years and stumbling upon this channel I was inspired to buy my own cards, build my own decks out of the cards I pulled from packs and now have found out friends at work play and was able to get back into playing paper magic with friends. Honestly if it wasn’t for this channel I’d probably still be stuck playing arenas by myself, which there is nothing wrong with at all but, there’s just some magic about paper magic that I was missing and like I said, without seeing all the great paper magic being played on this channel I could still be stuck grinding ranked on my phone on work breaks so thanks to all of the great member of the cardmarket team that makes this possible and to all the wonderful guest you’ve had on!❤

[@TheRealPlato]

pauper decks are cheap enough that you could buy decks for your friends

[@kyledawson8336]

as always it was a pleasure too watch Thoralf and Jamin play, their friendly banter is really heartwarming and makes watching the video much more enjoyable, 10/10.

[@EastonSavage]

Y'all made me build a Dandan deck and it's a TON of fun!

[@timothyatwell7824]

I am trying to talk my buddies into playing dandan with me

[@Joseph125]

I will always like for Dandân content. Spoiler for the video ahead I was wondering if Toffel was going to get greedy and try to deck Jamin when there were 4 cards left in the library. If Jamin had survived that last turn (something something vision charm), it would have reached the classic Dandân scenario of having both damage and mill win cons in play. I love this format.

[@Verlisify]

"That last Dandan didn't properly show the format" > Proceeds to have a much more scuffed Dandan game

[@mopanda81]

I think this game had a lot of depth to it. Trying to fight over lands instead of dandans was an interesting line.

[@DerickTheHeroV2]

23:20 Shouldn't the new DanDan immediately die to state based effects of Thoralf not having islands now?

[@ReyosBlackwood]

Technically no, but only because it's a trigger that makes you sacrifice DanDan not an SBE

[@DerickTheHeroV2]

@@ReyosBlackwood okay my bad on SBE, but would the condition on DanDan not apply because Thoralf didn't have Islands upon him casting DanDan?

[@ReyosBlackwood]

@@DerickTheHeroV2 It absolutely should have, they messed up.

[@primoridalspatula663]

I absolutely love the editing style of this video. All the visuals showing who has what cards and knows what is really helpful

[@XopheAdethri]

21:29 Your Magikarp evolved into: Gyarados.

[@nedcurfman3486]

Weird format videos are such a treat. I hope you wonderful lads have as much fun making these as we do watching!

[@caseywellington4761]

This channel always has the cleanest editing. It's subtle and super helpful. I love it!

[@eddievedderface]

I love the way Thoralf says Dandan.

[@Nitrox_Costa_]

7:05 A small misstep: crystal spray can change the text of a card, not it's type. It can be used to kill a Dandan (changing the island in its text to any other land) but can't change the island itself :)

[@NicksMagicstorytime]

Yes. It can. A corner case choice to be sure but there are times where you might do this in Forgetful Fish. It was a great play.

[@Nitrox_Costa_]

@@NicksMagicstorytime I didn't know it could work like that. Thanks. I learned something new :)

[@ThankYouForTheVideos]

What a great video!! Thoralf and Jamin are so good at magic and it is a joy to watch them sling spells! I'm always down for more Dandân videos!!!

[@G.Aaron.Fisher]

I feel like there could be a spinoff format called Ooze Ooze with a bunch of Slime Against Humanity and other ooze cards. It might not play as well, but it would make for a funny gag.

[@therealax6]

I wonder if 20 life would be enough...

[@richardcherveny163]

Love these other MTG formats friends. I am learning so much about the stack and sequencing. Love it!

[@blueredlover1060]

23:35 shouldn't the Dan-Dan sacrifice itself, as Toffol doesn't control any Islands due to Vision Charm?

[@oaketree]

The little rulings on the side, such as the Unsubstantiate on the flashback spell is great for players learning rules interactions. Keep that up!

[@Flare722]

Thank you Cardmarket! I was really hoping you'd make another Dandan video.

[@thygamerguy]

dandan is what brought me to this channel! yall could play dandan every week and i would still tune in xD also there are deck lists of other mono colored dandan? or maybe yall could make your own dandan list? i also loved the editing that Fele did this episode!

[@f99140]

Thanks for redoing another game, was a blast to watch!

[@jakfrost2]

I don't know how your editing is getting even better. Holy cow they deserve a raise!

[@Flip4Crypt]

I love land locking people in Dandan, it's brutal Great editing on the video! I love how much y'all highlight niche formats!

[@Kryptnyt]

I've had a foil timeshifted Dandan in a sleeve taped to my work locker for about eight years now, the purple expansion symbol ink has turned silvery blue, the boats are gray, I think it counts as damage but it just looks really cool!

[@violaknapp7904]

That was a fun ride! It's always cool to see how much reading other people and predicting hand cards can impact a game! I haven't played enough 1v1 formats to get good at it so I love to learn some tricks from the masters

[@darthretor8466]

After your first video a while ago I built my own Dandan variant that implements powerful cards like Sensei's Divining Top and Jace the Mind Sculptor while at the same time plays around with your and your opponents Islands with cards like Daze, Coral Atoll, Mystic Sanctuary, spreading Seas and many non-Island lands. It's super complex and super fun. I can share a decklist if you are interested.

[@justseffstuff3308]

Ooo, I'm interested! Please do share

[@shelkofsky1]

Lol you put jace in a deck with only 10 ways to kill it? That sounds like the format isn't dandan but instead jacejace

[@darthretor8466]

Nope, there are blue removal spells that can hit planeswalkers, e.g. Metamorphose

[@thejunecooperative]

@darthretor8466 Decklist please!

[@Aurelius2142]

I really can't explain how happy I am we're back to dandan

[@neco9590]

Yes! More Dandân, it's such a fun format

[@Likeitis96]

Awesome, another Dan-Dan video! Something like this or Judges Tower is probably my favorit mtg content.

[@BhbtheRock]

Whoever does the graphics for these deserves a medal

[@freal7412]

Very fun game :D Props to the editor ! The musoc was so epic during the final confrontations

[@ZSAITOSEI]

I've been using this in between rounds at the LGS, my record isn't great 😅 but it's always a load of fun. I've even made a small fix to it by replacing Chart a Course with a little known card called Lat-Nam's Legacy. For 1U, instant, shuffle a card from your hand into your library. If you do, draw two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. It's a really really good way to screw with all the top of library manipulation and gets useless cards out of your hand. It's played really well ❤

[@theblakwarior]

This is a really fun format to watch! I would not mind if this would be like semi regular thing or sth. I think it would also be interesting to see different kinds of players play it to see how they approach it. (Absolutely Not to be taken as Jamin and Thoralf are uninteresting, just as a general thought)

[@ilsignoredellaluce2234]

Nothing can beat the fun of two blue decks with plenty of mana and cards in hands 😂

[@Varler_]

That was super fun!!! I'd love to see this return every few months.

[@sortfaar3]

would love to see this again in like 8 months. well played both of you

[@ReyosBlackwood]

6:26 the right play here for Jamin would probably be to get rid of Thoralf's Island with Metamorphose. While the Izzet Boilerworks does tap for two, Thoralf only has one island in play, and none in hand (which Jamin knows because he has controlled the deck and Thoralf missed so many land drops), bringing him down one land while also making him sacrifice both of the Dan-Dan, making it a three for one. Or the crystal spray after works pretty good too.

[@JJW410]

27:18 What a pro plug, Jamin knows no fear in the face of Dandan.

[@XTimTheEnchanterX]

Glad to see Dandan making its comeback

[@ReubenAotearoa]

Definitely keen for more Dandan. It’d be cool to see you try different variations of it too: such as the original mirage era version from Nick’s write up (which is what I have built) as well as some other shared deck formats built around other cards too.

[@DerringerHK]

Alright, this convinced me. I've now bought Dandan. Great game guys, really fun and interactive :)

[@TheSLATEcleaner]

When Thoralf casts a Dandan at 23:00, it dies to state-based actions due to Vision Charm still being in effect. Had they caught it, it would have stayed in hand obviously, so it would have only delayed play by a turn.

[@joshuajohnston4825]

THAT WAS GREAT!!! Dandan is such a cool format!

[@Tharkon]

8:47 It is not old wording, you can choose less than 7. Also, the active player, which in this case would have been Thoralf, chooses and draws first. 19:33 And when cycling a card, discarding it is a cost, the card does not go on the stack. So the Lonely Sidebar and Remote Isle should have gone in the graveyard in opposite order and the spells on top of that.

[@__entiendo]

This is why I love Dandan, cause we went from Thoralf having both boilerworks to them being on Jamin's side of the battlefield xD

[@DerickTheHeroV2]

Thank you for doing this video. I asked for this months ago, you are legends.

[@Sliverik]

Your previous dandan video made me build a deck, and I enjoy the format a lot. This video uses a different list with a few very interesting cards... I might try to build a new version, or go up to 100 cards and include the stuff I discovered in here, + a few more islands and of course more dandan!

[@MegaMania91]

I am definitely building this. It looks like such a fun way to play and work on decision making.

[@tciddados]

I like how Thoralf got all the Dandans and Jamin got all the Accumulated Knowledges.

[@markcargill1304]

If you guys are interested in playing it, I designed and built a different shared deck format. it's built around the card loxodon peacekeeper and is a multiman (4 person) format similar to edh. It completely changes the traditional goals for magic

[@HeirToPendragon]

Share it!

[@joshuawilliams5840]

This got me hocked on dandan! I've even been trying to make a dandan style deck in each color!!

[@flamaster1757]

Someone really went "you know what? I wish there were a format that's always a mono-blue mirror match"

[@NotQuiteAllHere]

Def would love to see this and judge tower again. Love them.

[@CodeNamR]

Love these games. Would love to see dandan again sometime in the future.

[@XenithShadow]

23:18 does the dan dan imediatly die cause all the islands are currently forrests?

[@NicksMagicstorytime]

Yes, I noticed that but they couldn’t hear my screaming on the other end of the camera.

[@99wattr89]

I love seeing more DanDan! Next judge's tower?

[@DJBarrister]

At ~7:15, why not play sanctuary and with trigger on the stack turn the island into a mountain so you'd get the spell in the graveyard? Isn't it better than a random card?

[@Netro1992]

Man, that was actually really impressive. Dandan is a joy to watch be played because it's entirely about skill and not what overpowered nonsense was put into the new set so speculators will buy it.

[@ClanCrusher]

Now this is the chaotic, mind-bending, Dandan game I was waiting to see!

[@dachivale5319]

Nice game, looked like a lot of fun. Seems like a very interesting Format. Is there an official list for this or can you make a different list for this yourself?? Asking to make sure, because I would probably like to make my own Decklist for this. :D

[@NicksMagicstorytime]

Yes it is completely customizable. But here is my current list in the Google Doc I originally published it in. docs.google.com/document/d/1nLLsrRfv6qRvri8zIHnxqUjOeUGS-o_izVicthyRzYM/edit

[@quiteaconfusedindividual]

29:00 feels like that one moment in Exploding Kittens where everybody is noping each other

[@Rocknoob49]

Dân Dân is so much fun to watch. Really condensed, it feels like chess but with magic cards.

[@tessajanes9626]

Man this was so much fun to watch! More Dandan :D

[@Kettwiesel25]

I'm pretty sure the Crystal Spray play at 7:09 doesn't work, as the card can only change the text, not the basic land type of Toffels Island.

[@GrizonII]

The Oracle rulings on Crystal Spray state "Alters all occurrences of the chosen word in the text box and the type line of the given card." so it seems like the type counts as part of the text.

[@Kettwiesel25]

Interesting

[@davidhansen5067]

I need to build my own Dandân deck.

[@mopanda81]

this game really showcased just how interesting a card game dandan is

[@alfiebolton6994]

So much fun, this episode more fun that the other and very tempting to get my own dandan deck

[@spiffyhat8631]

8:47 believe it or not, this is the correct and intended wording of Diminishing Returns! Players can indeed choose to draw between 0 and 7 cards upon the resolution of Diminishing Returns. As far as why it's like that? Who knows lol

[@frinbar]

I would love to see this be a regular thing!

[@ianhancock9045]

Thoralf's opening hand is eligible for a free mulligan by Nick Floyd's original Dandân rules! "The standard mulligan rule applies, but anytime a starting hand of seven cards does not contain two or more land cards or does contain six or more, that player may reveal those cards and take a free mulligan without having to put an additional card on the bottom of the library when finally deciding to keep a hand. "

[@NicksMagicstorytime]

Yeah. That was because the two important namesake cards both cost two, so I figured if a player didn’t have two lands it should be a redraw by default.

[@thedevilcomes2011]

That was a good round of Dan Dan, Thanks :)

[@NNNNTTTT-q6c]

This was awesome, I really enjoyed it a lot. It's fun comparing the first video, where it's just beats, with the new one-- I wonder what changed since the last one to make this one so much grindier? Do you think you're just more familiar with the format, did you switch lists?

[@NicksMagicstorytime]

They did change lists. This is my list at the time they did the first video (the creator), with the Insidious Wills. I have since gone back to the 8 Memory Lapse because the hard counter mode left me feeling cold. docs.google.com/document/d/1nLLsrRfv6qRvri8zIHnxqUjOeUGS-o_izVicthyRzYM/edit

[@bakudanashita]

So happy to see some more love for Dandan on the channel. Is this the same decklist as last time?

[@CardmarketMagic]

No :) the decklist has been updated. You can see it in the pinned comment

[@bakudanashita]

@@CardmarketMagic Grand job. One of these days I'll decide which Dandan list I want to buy.

[@slayeroffilth45]

alright hear me out, double the size of the deck get 2 more players, and have Dan Dan as a commander. Loved the video and really would like to see more Dan Dan!

[@Oxygen1004]

Have any of you tried to build/look for other colors of Dan Dan? I remember seeing a white Dan Dan a while ago with Lost Leonin with a large focus on phyrexian mana to use your life as a resource as the only form of damage you'll be receiving is infect

[@HeirToPendragon]

I printed a version of this using Pokemon art and names. Some examples include Accumulated Knowledge -> Pokedex, Ray of Command -> Team Rocket, and of course, Dandan -> Magikarp.

[@giacomofasulo3861]

12:45 can you give me the link to the gif pretty please?

[@gamaroidone6706]

The editing for this was great!

[@ulyssessanchez2328]

Genuinely would love to have this rematch every now and then Ever green content 100%

[@DonLuca27]

I love those unusual formats! I'm all for another round of Dandan or Judge Tower. I just have one request, at least for Dandan: can the editor add something like a bar at the top of the video showing which phase the active player is in? At some point it became REALLY hard to tell which phase you were during your turn! EDIT: or maybe just add it for the more intense/chaotic turns, otherwise it would become a chore for the editor.

[@CosmicEncounter7]

15:54 Why not just cast diminishing returns again after it got returned to hand?

[@gabrielemarogna9444]

The fact that Thoralf said "as the new people say" is adorable! Thofl, did you mean "kids"? 😂😂

[@Patris-corde]

I'll have to build a dandan deck. Looks like a ton of fun.

[@GTass455in]

More Dandan please! This was super fun! (Also more pauper please!)

[@cactusevergreen6268]

At 6:38 you could've metamorphosed Thoralf's island, which would've killed both of the Dandans as you knew he had no more islands (with your own memory lapse to back it up)

[@iuribogar9611]

I love these crazy formats!!

[@spookyhogan]

The editing on this video is hilarious! The thumbnail isn't as funny as last time, but I still like it!

[@pedronaranjito]

Amazing video, as always. Keep it going amigos

[@erlanddrow7950]

Do you think you'll try other variants of Dandân in the future? I know people have made ones that are mono black, or where you burn your opponent with red miracle cards.

[@milramas]

always great to see more dandan

[@zanecords1821]

I want to see Karl through his hat in the Dandan ring! May be do a 4-player version like commander? I've seen a few versions with a bigger deck that plays that way.

[@Jolfgard]

Dandan is THE MtG game mode that feels the most different (unless you're playing alone and building a linear bounded automaton).